{"id":5382,"date":"2015-02-07T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2015-02-07T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:44:31","slug":"think-about-this-on-your-next-commute-traces-of-anthrax-bubonic-plague-found-in-nyc-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5382","title":{"rendered":"Think About This On Your Next Commute: Traces of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague Found in NYC Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/1241721-aliens-half-of-dna-on-nyc-subways-has-no-known-organism-study-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think About This On Your Next Commute: Traces of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague Found in NYC Subway<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Think about this the next time you grip a New York City subway pole: A new study has found that 48 percent of all DNA on the subway\u2019s surface \u201cmatches no known organism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A study, published Friday by Cornell University, noted that \u201chundreds of species of bacteria are in the subway, mostly harmless. More riders bring more diversity.\u201d This suggests there\u2019s a \u201cvast wealth of unknown species that are ubiquitous in urban areas\u201d that New Yorkers touch every day.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that one station that was flooded during Hurricane Sandy a few years ago to this day, \u201cresembles a marine environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In likely stressing out more commuters, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/pb\/assets\/raw\/journals\/research\/cell-systems\/do-not-delete\/CELS1_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, titled \u201cGeospatial Resolution of Human and Bacterial Diversity with City-Scale Metagenomics,\u201d also found traces of the bubonic plague and anthrax.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornell Researchers spent about 18 months examining the entire subway system. Among the organisms that were identified, there were \u201c1,688 bacterial, viral, archaeal, and eukaryotic taxa, which were enriched for harmless genera associated with skin,\u201d the authors said.<\/p>\n<p>Samples from trains, parks, waterways, subway stations, and trains (all the surfaces, including seats, poles, ceilings, floors, windows, and doors) were taken.<\/p>\n<p>A bacteria heatmap was posted on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pathomap.org\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\">interactive website, PathoMap.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think About This On Your Next Commute: Traces of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague Found in NYC Subway Think about this the next time you grip a New York City subway pole: A new study has found that 48 percent of all DNA on the subway\u2019s surface \u201cmatches no known organism.\u201d A study, published Friday by Cornell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3292,3291,3294,3262,271,3293,3295],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cleanliness","tag-commuting","tag-cornell-university","tag-disease","tag-environment-2","tag-public-spaces","tag-subway-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}